Davenport-bed



J. D. BELL.

DAVENPORT BED.

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Patented Jam 18, 1921.

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om'reo sures PATENTOFFICE- JOSEPH ,D. BELL, 0F ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

DAVENPORT-3121)..

To allwlaom itmay conceive: i

e it known that I, JOSEPH D; BELL, a citizen of the United Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Davenport-Beds, of

which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and easily operated davenport bed soiconstructed as to support and conceal, when used as a davenport, a mattress of the greatest thickness used on an ordinary bed.

In the accompanying drawing, a vertical. longitudinal. section device extended for use also in dotted lines its parts when davenport; Fig.1 2 is a similar view of the device, showing the position of certain of its parts when partly folded foruse as a davena similar view showing when wholly folded for such use. a I

Referring to the drawing, l-indicates one of the two ends of the davenport frame mounted upon rollers 2 andhaving secured thereto a base board 3. Although only one showing the as a bed, showing the pOSllllOll of certam o1:

. side of the bed and one end of the davenport are here shown, it is to beunderstood that both sides andends arealike. Hinged, as shown at 4, to the top of said baseboard is a front board 6 of aseat frame 7;, having sides 8 extended behind the seat 9,]and carrying legs 11 mounted upon rollers 12, upon which the free end of the seat is sup ported when in its extended positio' the sides 8 of the seat frame are pivoted, as shown at 13, ends of links let, the other ends of which are pivoted,asshow1 1 at 16, to the rear ends of the sides 17 of a. short terminal mattress frame section 18, which constitutes the foot portion of the mattress frame, and also tothe sides 19 of an intermediate mattress framesection. The other ends of said sides 19 are pivoted, as shown ends of sides 22 offthe other terminal mattress frame section 23, the other ends of which sides carry on their outer sides pins 24.

Said pins 24: slide in grooves 26 in plates 27 secured on the inner surfaces of the davenport ends, said grooves extending for the most part in a vertical direction, but having short lower portions 28 extending horizontally forward. The sides 22 of the terminal mattress frame section 23 are piv- Specification of Letters Patent.

States, residing at.

Figure l is l partly folded for use as a otally attached, as shown at29, to the upper ends of links 31, the lower ends ,ofwhich arepivotallyattached, as shown at 32, to plates 33 secured to the davenport ends near their lower edges. i

The, front terminal section 18 is held in either ahorizontal or a vertical position. It is held in the latter position by means of bars 34 each pivotally attached at one end to said terminal section 18 and at the other end provided with meansior detachably securing it to the sides, 19 of the intermediate mattress frame section. Said means may be eitheran ordinary hook formed in the bars34= engaging a pin or any other suitable Patented Jan. 18, 1921. App1ieation filed A ril. 15, 1918; Serial No. 228,718, r

means, this construction constituting no part ,of my present invention.

In movm the device fromits position for useas a bet, shown in F g. l, to its position i for use as a davenport, as shown in Fig. 3, first the short terminal section 18 of the mattress frame is moved into aposition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 at right angles to the intermediate section, and ;suitably secured in such position automatically, or otherwise, and then the intermediate and short terminal sections are swung rearwardlyabout the pivots lfias an axis. This motion of the intermediate. section transl'rritted to the terminal section 23 causes the pins 24 of said section, which were in the short horizontally extending portions 28 of the grooves 26, to move rearwardly. Up to that time the pivots 21 of said intermcdiets and long terminal sections couldnot be depressed by the weight of a person upon the bed,for the reason that such depression could onlyltake place simultaneously with theriseofthe other end of said terminal section 23, sincethe middleportion of the latter section is supported upon the links 3'1v v and thepins 24 were engaged in the horizontal portions 28 of the grooves. But when the intermediate section is swung rear- Wardly, this causes the pins 24- to move irearwardly, out of the portions 28 ofthe grooves, and into thevertically extending mainu portions offthe grooves in which said Thereupon the front ends of the side pieces of the terminal section 23 descend, carrying with them the rearends of the side pieces 19 of the intermediate section, so that the mattress frame finally assumes the position which the links 14 "rest upon the bottom pins can ascend.

shown in Fig. 2, in-

.theposition shown in ldig. 8, and it davenport frame.

to an inverted position in front sections, the rear section pivotal connection between bed sect on constitut ng aswlngmg fulcrum of the front board 6 of the seat frame, which bottom is then uppermost; T he next operation is to swing the seat frame into will be apparent that, when so swinging said seat frame, the: terminalsection 1S. and the front end of'the intermediate section will descend and be entirely concealed within the The reverse operation is er'fornred in opening out the device for'use 1 as a bed' When-in this position it will be Observed that the terminal mattress frame section rests upon the legsll.

The wire mattress 35 isattached at its ends to the outer ends of the terminal inattress frame sections.

Ifdesired, springs may be placed on the links 31, to reduce the labor of the operator in open ng or closing the bed.

)The manner in which the back 36 of the davenport, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, is raised and lowered, formsno part of any invention, as it may be done by any suitable or preferred means, and 'is therefore not herein described and illustrated.

As the seat is inverted,'the front board 6 of the seat frame and the base-board 8 form, one or the other, a stop for arresting the downward movement of the adjacent portions of the links 14, and, therefore, form fulcrums for said-links, which then act as levers, to which the power is applied at 13 by the descent ofthe seat frame 7 to raise the pivot 16 to a level above the top of the base-board 3, thus employing the weight of the s'eatit'sel-f, when inverted, to raise the front portion of the mattress frame, and

--st11ffed mattress thereon, and facilitating the extension of" these parts, Fig.1.-

- I claim:- 1. The combination of a davenport frame having 'a back, and a seat hinged to the front of the frame and movable on its hinge of the frame, pivotally connected occupying an upright position at the back of thefran'ie and another section occupying a substantially horizontal position within the bottom of the frame-n1 the folded condition of the bed bottom, a link disposed below the bed bottom in its operative position and pivoted to the davenpo'rt frame and to'the rear bed section inte'r-m'ec'li'ate the ends thereof, the the link andthe as shown in a 7 bed bottom" including rection from its operative position to its folded position.

2. In a davenport bed, the combination of a davenport frame having a back, and a seat hinged to the front of the frame and movable on its hinge to an inverted position in front of the frame, a bed bottom including pivot-ally connected sections, the rear section occupying; an upright position at the back of the frame and another section occupying a substantially horizontal position within the bottom of the frame in the folded condition of the bed bottom, a link disposed be low the bed bottom in its operative position and pivoted to the davcnport frame and lo the rear bed section intermediate the ends thereof, the pivotalv connection between the link and the bed section constituting a swinging;- fulcrum on which the bed section turns in noving from its (nocrative position to its folded position, another link disposcd below the bed bottom in its operative position and pivotally connected to the seat and to said other 3G(l section, and means for guiding the rear end of the rea bcd section in an upward direction from its operative position to its folded position, said guiding: means including a pair of upright grnidcs having corresponding offsets at the lower ends, and devices carried by the rear bed section and workn'g: upon guides, the offset portions of the guides overhanging: said devices in the operative position of the bed bottom.

3. In combination with a having a forwardly invertible seat frame pivotally supported on the davcnport bed frame, links, each pivotally connected at our end to the davenport seat frame. an extensible mattress frame pivotally connected to the other ends of said links. one of said elements, the davcnport bed frame or seal frame having a part adjacent to the piv t of the seat frame to the bed frame cnpjnyrirnr said links to form a fulcrum, convcrtii'igx ea id links into levers for raising the iilfiiil' ris frame by the descent of ilio scat frame in inverting the latter.

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